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The Wellin Museum will host an opening reception for Julia Jacquette: Unrequited and Acts of Play, oil paintings that explore our relationship with the media landscape and a graphic memoir based on the architecture of urban playgrounds in the 1970s, on Feb. 18.

Hamilton College charter trustee Linda E. Johnson, a 1980 graduate, has established the Johnson-Pote Museum Director Fund in support of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art director’s position.

The Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art continues to offer students the opportunity to engage with professional artists in preparing site-specific artwork for their shows. Six students returned to campus two weeks early in January to work with Julia Jacquette on wall murals.

In celebration of the upcoming exhibition, Julia Jacquette: Unrequited and Acts of Play, opening at the Wellin Museum of Art on Feb. 18, Director Tracy Adler and New York-based artist Jacquette hosted a reception on this month in Manhattan.

The American Alliance of Museums published "It’s Time to Sell the Sizzle," an essay by the Wellin Museum’s Educator for School and Community Programs Amber Spadea, on its Center for the Future of Museums blog this month.

Wellin Museum of Art Director Tracy L. Adler will lead a tour of the museum’s current exhibition Senses of Time: Video and Film-Based Works of Africa – on Thursday, Nov. 10, from 4:15 to 5:30 p.m.

President David Wippman, South African artist Berni Searle and Karen Milbourne, curator of Senses of Time, engaged in a conversation that explored issues around art and politics on Oct. 18. Senses of Time, the current exhibition at Wellin Museum, includes two works by Searle, A Matter of Time and About to Forget.

Berni Searle, a South African artist whose work is part of the Wellin Museum’s “Senses of Time” exhibition, will discuss her performative video with curator Karen Milbourne and President David Wippman. The lecture will be held on Tuesday Oct. 18, at 4 p.m., in the Overlook at the Wellin Museum. It is free and open to the public.

Senses of Time: Video and Film-Based Works of Africa – on view from Sept. 10 to Dec. 11 at the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art – explores how time is experienced and produced by the human body. Figures stand, climb, dance and dissolve in nine works of video and film art by seven acclaimed contemporary African artists. An opening reception will be held from 4 to 6 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 10.   

“What a wonderful way to end the Yun-Fei Ji show,” proclaimed Wellin Museum of Art Director Tracy Adler as two articles, both celebrating Yun-Fei Ji: The Intimate Universe, appeared online during the final week of the exhibition. A stellar review titled Yun-Fei Ji’s Ghost Stories of the Living, was published on June 29 by Hyperallergic, and an artist interview, Yun-Fei Ji: ‘I’m pessimistic about China’, debuted on June 26 in Studio International.